“Oh, where is there the heart but knows
Love's first steps are upon the rose!”
Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)
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“Oh, the heart
Knows not the power of music till it loves!”
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
"Comrades in the Dark"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
“Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose.”
All That's Past.
“Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!”
Unity, § I
The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)
Context: Heart of my heart, the world is young;
Love lies hidden in every rose!
Every song that the skylark sung
Once, we thought, must come to a close:
Now we know the spirit of song,
Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
Hand in hand as we wander along,
What should we doubt of the years that roll?
“Oh, oh, oh
You're changing your heart
Oh, oh, oh
You know who you are.”
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
“The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end”
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Context: Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Our fate